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Bear in mind the following:

Allergies can come and go and develop for no obvious reason after many years of exposure without any allergic reactions.

• There are a great many individual components within many allergens (e.g. foods, animals, plants) that may cause an IgE response.
• We might not find evidence of an allergy to a particular food, or animal or plant but that might be because you are allergic to an obscure component or type of that food, animal or plant that we didn’t test for. For example, we test for 6 types of grass and you might be negative to all of them. However, there are hundreds of other less common types of grass and you might be allergic to one of them. Another example; you may not have an IgE response to the salmon that we use for our test, but actually be allergic to salmon that has been smoked, or preserved or cooked in particular ways.
• In other words, our test very accurately measures a specific range of IgE levels and can be very helpful in alerting you to a potential allergy but it will never be categorical as to whether you are going to actually experience an allergic reaction.

Finally, it is important to note that no blood test is a substitute for seeing a doctor, particularly if you are feeling unwell. You should not make a diagnosis or start any treatment without a consultation with a doctor or a suitably trained health care professional. There are many times when test results which are out of range are entirely insignificant but there are other times when they are not. They always need to be interpreted in the context of the rest of your health and this can only really be determined with a full clinical history and examination.